I have not seen anything related to this at bugzilla.lyx.org: Put the cursor at the end of your doc. Start spellchecking. Then click on stop spellchecking, move the cursor to the beginning of the file, and click on start spellchecking. Lyx crashes with:
lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught Sorry, you have found a bug in LyX. Please read the bug-reporting instructions in Help->Introduction and send us a bug report, if necessary. Thanks ! lyx: Attempting to save document /home/mw/Karcsi_bacsi/diffu.lyx as... /home/mw/Karcsi_bacsi/diffu.lyx.emergency Save seems successful. Phew. I have $ rpm -q lyx lyx-1.2.1-2mdk I'll file a better report if this is unknown. Mate